Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Navy Orders More Test Stingrays from Boeing
With three more MQ-25As being ordered, Boeing now has seven of the unmanned carrierborne tankers on contract.
Boeing’s company-funded MQ-25 prototype lands back at MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Mascoutah, Illinois, at the end of its first flight in September last year. (Photo: Boeing)
Boeing’s company-funded MQ-25 prototype lands back at MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Mascoutah, Illinois, at the end of its first flight in September last year. (Photo: Boeing)

The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command has ordered three MQ-25 Stingray unmanned carrierborne tanker aircraft from Boeing. An April 2 modification to an existing contract, the $84.7 million deal adds three System Demonstration Test Articles (SDTAs), bringing the number of Stingrays now on order to seven. The first four Engineering Development Model (EDM) aircraft were ordered in an $805 million contract awarded in August 2018, when the Boeing design was selected as the winner of the CBARS (carrier-based aerial refueling system) competition. This latest batch is expected to be complete by August 2024.


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